Tailwind Tribes Review

When you sign up for a basic Tailwind account you will get access to five Tribes.

You are able to submit 30 pins a month.

I have two Tailwind accounts, one for each of my blogs.

My parenting blog is over 2 years old and I signed up for Tailwind when Tribes were still in the beta testing phase.

I was grandfathered into Tailwind Tribes. With my parenting blog, I have always had access to 10 Tailwind Tribes and 80 submissions and month.

With my new blog, I decided to take the plunge and upgrade to unlimited Tribes and unlimited submissions.

I have been able to piggyback my other blog as well by joining parenting tribes as well as tribes that relate to blogging.

This is because both of my blogs are in different niches but they do overlap in some ways.

Expectations

I’m not entirely sure what my expectations where about Tribes. I knew that they were bringing in more than SmartLoop, but I wasn’t sure if that would grow much.

I know that I wanted to try and increase traffic, so that was definitely an expectation. I just wasn’t sure how much it would grow.

User-friendliness

For the most part, Tailwind Tribes are very easy to use.

I like that you can easily see how many pins you have contributed and how many you’ve pinned back.

It would be really niche if there was some kind of batch scheduling feature instead of having to individually schedule each pin.

However, it isn’t all that bad to use.

If anything, it comes back to the clunkiness of their interface. It is slow and of course that means it is sucking time that could be spent doing something else.

Results

For the sake of transparency, I’m going to include the graphs of both of my blogs Google Analytics.

Do bear in mind that one blog is over 2 years old and the other is around 2 months old.

While my second blog does have some overlapping content in that it does discuss some parenting topics, the vast majority of the content on it today it has been strictly about blogging.

That also needs to be taken into consideration when interpreting these results.

You will see that my parenting blog saw a tremendous increase and traffic directly from Tailwind Tribes.

Christinekeys.net

See that little circle? That’s when I purchased unlimited Tribes.

I was averaging 50-70 users per day.

My traffic started growing almost immediately and I had an amazing day where you can see I had over 2.4k users come from Tailwind Tribes!

Sure, the spike did go back down, but not to what it was before.

My Tribes traffic is now averaging more like 350-500 users per day.

The traffic from Raising Kids Making Money is less impressive, but also remember to bear in mind that we’re dealing with a different niche and a brand new blog.

Raisingkidsmakingmoney.com

Despite the fact that we’re looking at much lower numbers in comparison to my more established blog, you can still see an upward trend in traffic.

Pros & Cons

Here are some of the pros and cons of using Tribes:

They’re great for getting your pins directed at a specific audience

You could see a tremendous increase and traffic

You will get five Tribes and 30 submissions a month on the basic Tailwind plan

Tribes are also really helpful for finding good quality content to pin back to your boards

There is a really good rate of reciprocation

Now for some of the cons:

Tribes can be time-consuming

They are not immune from spam

You probably won’t see a huge amount of traffic just from the basic Tribes plan

Now let’s look at pricing:

Tailwind SmartLoop Pricing

Here is a good visual of the SmartLoop pricing for both monthly and annual subscriptions.

Tailwind also offers the SmartLoop Elite option once you’ve purchased the SmartLoop Max.

Tailwind Tribes Pricing

Here is the pricing table for Tribes for both monthly and annual subscriptions.

You’ll notice that they’re priced almost exactly the same, except that there is no Elite option.

Alternately, you can just take the plunge and purchase the Unlimited PowerUp Bundle like I did.

It offers a lot of value for money and you don’t have to worry about reaching your limit of month submissions to Tribes.

Conclusion

In conclusion, if we are solely looking at the results from Google Analytics my recommendation would be to upgrade Tailwind Tribes.

However, as you will get access to both tools using just the basic Tailwind plan, I recommend that you try out both of them for a little while and see if there is a clear winner as far as traffic is concerned.

Make sure to be consistent and how you use the tools and give it at least three months before you decide.

As I mentioned before I ended up upgrading to unlimited Tribes and unlimited submissions. There is a deal where you will get unlimited SmartLoops along with that.

That deal is the same price as what you would pay if you only upgraded to unlimited Tribes.

Therefore, it is a much better deal overall and I feel as though it has given me a fairly good a review of the tools and the results of using them.

If you are a new blogger and you’re really wanting to give your blog a traffic boost, then investing in a Tailwind Tribes upgrade could just be the right step for you.

Hi James, So when referring to users I’m meaning 350-500 individual people visiting my blog. Pageviews is a different number to that. As for tribes, I joined a bunch at first but have whittled them down to about 10 that are performing well for me and are niche-specific.

Hey, I’m Christine! Owner and creator of Raising Kids Making Money. I started my parenting blog Christine Keys back in February ’17. It quickly became both my creative outlet and an online income stream. Now I want to be able to teach other moms how to do the same!